[K12OSN] flushing out my backlog... testing for version 4.11

[Kurt Harlan]

I agree WHOLEHEARTEDLY with Jim and Eric's comments. Please continue to  
use your good judgement with K12LTSP.

Kurt Harlan
Mulino, OR
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On Oct 1, 2004, at 9:00 AM, Jim Hays <haysja at sages.us> wrote:

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> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 10:30:46 -0500
> From: Jim Hays <haysja at sages.us>

> Eric
>
> The K12LTSP distribution is fine the way it is.  If someone else wants
> to add these packages to a different "flavor" of Linux, more power to
> them.  I am an educator - who just happens to be interested in  
> computers
> and hence I became technology coordinator.  I love the fact that this  
> is
> an "all-in-one" package.  I don't want to play Linux politics and argue
> one "flavor" against another.  You chose RedHat - which became Fedora -
> and that is fine.
>
> Most of us in K12 need a complete distribution like this.  We don't  
> want
> to - don't have time for - don't need to -..... install Linux and then
> put K12LTSP on top of that.  Most of use are coming from Windows  
> servers
> and don't have a great deal of experience with Linux.  We need to be
> able to put a few CDs in and have an inclusive install.
>
> K12LTSP is a beautiful distribution.  It somply WORKS and works well.
> As Eric says below, there is no reason to start over from scratch.
>
> Thank you, Eric, for all you do and for sharing your expertise, wisdom,
> and hard work with us.  I am very grateful for the distibution that you
> have put together.
>
> Long Live K12LTSP !!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
>
>
> Eric Harrison wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 08:09, David Trask wrote:
>>
>>
>>> "Support list for opensource software in schools."  
>>> <k12osn at redhat.com> on
>>> Friday, October 1, 2004 at 10:06 AM +0000 wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Then you could install your choice of redhat/fedora
>>>> whitebox/centos (sometimes dictated by which works on your
>>>> hardware) and give one more command to turn it into k12ltsp.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hmmmm....also a good point, but I think a bit much to ask Eric to
>>> do....would anyone else be interested in taking Eric's packages and
>>> setting them up in this manner?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> First, the fewer steps the better. For every additional step we add,
>> we lose part of our target audience (those with no Linux experience).
>>
>> But we can have our cake and eat it too. Meta packages work reasonably
>> well for dealing with the dependencies. All of my config scripts have
>> already been split out, the installer itself just runs:
>>
>> 	/opt/ltsp/templates/k12linux/K12Linux-LTSP-initialize
>>
>> So much of this has already been done, and is currently being  
>> implemented.
>>
>> Don't forget the other part of my initial post: rather than  
>> re-inventing
>> the wheel here, we should be pushing as much as possible up-stream.  
>> The
>> work required to make the K12LTSP packages work on any arbitrary  
>> distro
>> would be much better spent working Jim on ltspcfg.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>>
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